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                       D A T A  I N T E R P R E T A T I O N


       This report contains tables of counts of deaths classified according
       to the cause of death and the age, race, and sex of the decedent for
       the residents of Arkansas.

       This report supplements the annual publications ARKANSAS VITAL
       STATISTICS and MORTALITY IN ARKANSAS.  The counts of deaths for
       each cause are shown for the race-sex and age categories.  Race
       categories are white and nonwhite.  The nonwhite deaths are
       predominately Black (over 98 percent) in Arkansas.

       Four age categories are shown for infants - less than 1 day, less
       than 1 week, less than 28 days, and less than 1 year of age.  These
       age categories are cumulative such that a death occurring during the
       first day of life is counted again in the three subsequent age 
       categories.  For deaths occurring at one year of age or older, counts
       are grouped into 5 or 10 year age intervals (age in completed years).

       The cause of death is the underlying cause classified according to the
       tenth revision of the INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES (ICD).
       Counts of deaths are displayed for the detailed list of causes.  Only
       a limited amount of the name of each cause category is printed.  If a
       particular category does not appear, this indicates no deaths were
       recorded this year.  Complete descriptions of the cause categories 
       are provided in the ICD.

       The cause of death categories are ordered from the general to the
       specific.  The 4-digit category is the most specific classification.
       A 3-digit category is the sum of 4-digit categories having the same
       first three digits.  A group of the categories is the sum of 3-digit
       categories with similar attributes.  A sum of groups form a section,
       of which there are nineteen.  The following example illustrates the
       four levels of the cause of death:

       LEVEL       ICD CODE   CATEGORY

       Section      I00-I99   IX. Diseases of the Circulatory System

       Group        I10-I15       Hypertensive diseases

       3-Digits     I11           Hypertensive heart disease

       4-Digits     I11.0         -- with (congestive) heart failure 

                    I11.9         -- without (congestive) heart failure


       Three sections, (II, XIII, and XX) also have blocks of codes within the
       'Groups' to provide greater specificity.
 




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